Sentences with phrase «in sticking up for»

With Murdoch's power slipping away maybe Ed can finally show some courage in sticking up for the working class.

Some commenters accused me of outdated and dangerous dogmatism in sticking up for traditional religion.

Not exact matches

Screw up your courage, stick to your guns, do what's right for the present, and be ready to flex in the future.

You may not want to admit it, but it's gonna be a lot harder to support and stick up for someone when, in your heart of hearts, you think they were a pig in the negotiations and overdid it.

But had Sony stuck to its guns and released the movie as planned, it would have made a strong statement about standing up for freedom instead of giving in to fear and threats as Ben Franklin once wrote, «Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.»

I can't directly compare the processors in both because Roku doesn't list the clock speed or number of cores for the Streaming Stick, but the startup has been pretty good at keeping up with the pace of technology with its hardware revisions.

If you don't have a clue about who's in the game or the pool and what they're doing, the patsy at the party is most likely you (or it will be soon enough) and that's an unhappy and ultimately untenable situation that never ends well for the ones who end up with the short end of the stick.

Negotiators from the U.S., Canada and Mexico wrapped up the seventh round of Nafta talks this week in Mexico still hoping for a breakthrough on the biggest sticking points.

The winner came in overtime off the stick of Patric Hornqvist when a defenseman failed to clear the puck and instead set up Hornqvist for a wide - open shot.

We ended up getting stuck in exactly that sort of heavy mid-afternoon traffic, so our hoped - for quick jaunt across town became a half - day excursion.

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Distaste for this no - holds - barred approach even led one prominent activist, Jeff Ubben, the CEO of hedge fund ValueAct, to stick up for Kleinfeld during a panel discussion on activism at the Milken Institute conference in May.

Then I got stuck in L.A. for a couple of days, and I didn't have a guitar to practice on, so I ended up buying a ukulele, and now I just play ukulele all the time.

Investors who snap up a stake in a start - up they spot on Indiegogo are most likely stuck with it for many years.

Remember that signing up for a repayment plan such as IBR does not mean you have to stick with it forever; you can always reevaluate in a few years if your financial situation changes.

When Dan's relaxed — comfortable — he's vulgar... like what you'd imagine [for someone] in an investment community: «By the way, shove this — stick it up his ass.»

Even though most mortgages in the US come with 30 - year terms, few borrowers end up sticking with the same home loan for that long.

Silver futures in the May contract settled last Friday in New York at 16.27 an ounce while currently trading at 16.60 up about 33 cents for the trading week still stuck in a six week consolidation as prices continue to flip - flop on a daily basis.

And if Trump sticks to his campaign promises, his administration may very well end up swimming in red ink: according to reputable estimates, if carried out, Trump's spending and tax plans, including his plans for infrastructure spending and wall - building, and his promise to retain some of the most expensive parts of Obamacare, will boost government borrowing by roughly a third within a decade, and could double it by 2036.

... i know your book says don't believe anything else before or after to protect its place in history, but just as you would read greek mythology and have incredulous thoughts about multigods ruling the earth water and the undergrounds, those who are not stuck on your wavelength, read your mythology and think how anyone in their right minds could ever fall for those idolatric stories... your belief in your creationist god is as unfathomable as an adult looking up the chimney and feeling the power of Santa Clause in them... does the power of Santa Clause compel you?

Not much... he could've done the same thing by going in front of his congregation wearing flesh - colored underwear, sticking his tongue out, standing up on the baptistry and twerking... then crying foul when he gets fired... what this tells me is that we're all idiots for being so predictably drawn into these types of stories... this is shameless self - promotion, plain and simple... and he wins because we're dupes...

We ripped up the traditional book into single pages, magnified these a hundred times, printed them in color and stuck them up as posters in the streets... Our lack of printing equipment and the necessity for speed meant that, though the best work was hand - printed, the most rewarding was standardized, lapidary and adapted to the simplest mechanical form of reproduction.

Actually the MAJORITY DO N'T SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE that why you had to have the peoples will overturned in court and in every place where gays needed a vote for marriage it was overturned or the heads of gov rammed it down peoples throats and why are sticking up for Tom you aren't US citizen by birth either?

While the pastor has it good in heaven for sticking with his religion, the muslims will find that their dozens of virgins they were expecting will be cross dressing demons with pitch forks to stick up their nasty brown butts.

He's saying that this storm is a blessing in that it's a WAKE UP CALL to be prepared in case a MAJOR natural disaster occurs and people are stuck without food or water for days or weeks.

Once bumped out of the groove in which we have been stuck for decades, it will be easier for parish priests to take up some of the reforms which have been encouraged gently by Pope Benedict, to be frightened no longer by traditional vestments and vessels for Mass, by the possibility of at least some celebrations of Mass being ad orientem, or by gently moving away fromanti - liturgical informality.

I came up with 25... (including, just for fun, «Maturing in Ape Village»)... but Zondervan decided to stick with the original.

The much - loved star, famous for his epic stand - up shows, his tickling sticks and Diddy Men, died on Sunday in the home he was born in, in the Liverpool suburb of Knotty Ash.

I was witness to great events in history, and my dad said something really profound — «Someone should've stuck up for the President!»

Jefferson in his many words is todays paul by basically testifying to a lost society by preaching «The heart «that is what God wants not the shell which will rott away.I can stand with this truth until the day I die because I also have had disagreements in my church about this same topic.I dispise religion and encourage salvation which come from having a relationship with Jesus.Many may ask how do i have a relationship with him?by simply asking God through prayer, not what we know as pray but simply given up and telling God he win.That is what being righteous means saying «lord your're right and i will believe and obey that.Last i will like to thank jefferson for this clip, becuase for so long I have been feeling like todays churches in not like the first churches.They are stuck into their four cornered walls preaching to those who already obtain the word and people who already think they are perfect, but what about the weak and the sinners who we are suppose to love, go after, preach to, help and deliver the same way as Christ camed for the sinners so do we also be like him.Jefferson basically telling all us young people and old no matter who have suffered in the world, the church, or no matter what party or the past that there is hope and «God wants that person» not the sin but the person.Jefferson wants us to know that God can become personal with us and we do exist or can exist in the christian world not because we are perfect but because «he is perfect and he saw our broken spirits and rescued us!

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

Gay mentality is so far off and even those that stick up for the gays that are not themselves gay don't have the balls in real life to understand what it is all about.

For instance, if they are shacked up with someone and not married, living in fornication, they stick around only until their particular sin is addressed in a sermon.

The respect for culutral relativism is important up to the point when it offends OUR cultural relativism... no American Bald Eagle should ever be sacrificed these Native American tribes should no better... maybe their religion needs to go through a period of modernization instead of being stuck in stupid traditions of the past... this extremely offends me as an American... why do not the Native Americans respect our culture?

Timothy You do well to stick up for your fellow atheist in the time they cant see there own hate and malice in front of them.

As followers of Jesus, we are obligated to stick up for the least of these, especially when they are being publicly bullied in the name of Christ.

I might switch it up in the future, but for now, I am going to stick with this.

When I meet someone who identifies himself as Reformed, I make all kinds of assumptions — that he is stuck up, that he thinks Calvin must sit on the right hand of the Father, that he delights in the idea of people being predestined for hell, that he will call me «uninformed» and «unenlightened» when he finds out that I've explored Open Theism.

RAF planes are to take aid to Christians stuck up a mountain in Iraq trying to escape Islamist fighters as the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, appeals for...

It is not a law of nature that young doctors who give up practice in the city for a quiet life in the country are unambitious or that everyone who leaves a walking stick in the room of someone on whom he has called is absent - minded.

Pity this stuck up blogger as she is probably so absorbed in her «perfect» world she can't actually see the wood for the trees.

Jack - O - Lantern pumpkins are now bred for thick skin that can hold up to carving, as well as a heartiness to survive after being carved, and set outside with a candle stuck in its guts.

I opened up all my cupboards, thought about what kind of nutrition I wanted to get out of my snack (fiber, vitamins, minerals, protein, carbs, heathy fats), chopped a dark chocolate bar in half, turned on my hob, added some water to a small pot, took out a bowl and threw in a bunch of seemingly random ingredients, rolled that dough into truffles, dipped them in what was by then melted chocolate, stuck the truffles in the freezer for 8 minutes and BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! They were ready!

Studies show that it speeds up recovery and induces «Wannabe» to be stuck in your head for a week.

You can serve it up immediately for some banana bee - nut soft serve, or stick it in the freezer to make it a little more solid.

Or you can stick it in the fridge, loosely covered in plastic wrap, for up to 24 hours.

I placed it in the freezer uncovered for about an hour to firm it up (and so the wrapping wouldn't stick to the caramel).

If you've got time stick the bowl in the fridge for an hour to firm up and help you shape the kofte.

Kipper and I set to and whipped this up in the afternoon, so we could deliver it in good time for them to stick it in the oven and tuck in come dinnertime.

Chocolate Chip Cupcakes Well, I know everyone else is probably gearing up for healthy eating mode, but I'm still stuck in baking mode.